Domestic Terrorists? Communities Coin Their Own Currency To Survive The Collapse

Local currencies are popping up to help local communities while states look into alternatives to the dollar as a hedge to falling dollar value and mounting government debt.

­Are these “domestic terrorists” who could tear apart the country, or are Federal government policies affecting the economy terrorizing them?

If you live in the US and care about whether the dollars in your pocket will be able to buy bread in the future, you’ve likely been paying attention to debates like this in Washington DC.

“The dollar during these last three years was devalued almost 50 percent,” Congressman Ron Paul said to Ben Bernanke in hearing on Capitol Hill.

“Our growing debt could cost US jobs and do significant damage to the economy,” President Obama told the country in an address in late-July.

If you’re state legislator Bob Marshall in office just 30 miles from the nation’s capital watching closely,growing more concerned about the direction of policy and the dollar, you’re making a contingency plan.

“How do we conduct business and economy if this kingdom of paper collapses because people don’t have any more trust in it,” is the question he’s posing to his colleagues.

And if you go shopping at this farmers market in the shadow of Capitol Hill, you’re already cashing in on another form of tender: the Potomac.

It’s a local currency circulating within this community of merchants. It was minted to help keep more money closer to home partly in response to economic stability according to its creator Larry Chang.

We first interviewed Chang close to two years ago when he began printing Potomacs in his home. Now circulation has increased along with its reason to be.